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Management of the Patient in Shock
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Your patients’ lives depend on your ability to assess and act; there isn’t room for error. Treatment protocols in Managing Shock change frequently and this session will provide you the latest evidence-based management strategies for:
- Hypovolemic Shock
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Neurogenic Shock
- Obstructive Shock
Objectives
- Recognize the cellular alterations that occur during shock
- Discriminate how cardiac output differs among the five shock states
Outline
- Cellular Altercations in Shock
- Diagnosis
- Pathophysiologic Shock Mechanisms
- Types of Shock
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Distributive Shock
- Septic Shock
- Hypovolemic Shock
- Obstructive Shock
- Approaches to Treating All Shock Patients
- Fluid Resuscitation
- Vasoactive Agents
- ECMO
- Specific Treatments Based on Shock Etiology
- Ongoing Patient Support and Shock Resuscitation
Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS
Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and physicians.
Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and provide participants with numerous case studies to facilitate critical thinking. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of infectious disease and multi-system organ failure patients.
His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paul Langlois has employment relationships with Cook County Hospital and Emergency Care Consultants. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paul Langlois is a member of the American Nurses Association and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.
